\n(Rebate Is No Longer Offered If Purchased In Oregon and the A.O. Smith Instant Rebate Is No Offered Either At Washington State Lowe’s)<\/p>\n
So a new Water Heater for $130.00 and As a Bonus It Will Work as a small AC unit for the shop and dehumidify the air a bit so sure why not!<\/p>\n
Washington Lowe’s Price… No Instant Rebate… $999.99 + Sales Tax about $100.00 Oregon Lowe’s Price $629.10 Out The Door Price… UnBoxed And Ready To Install…<\/p>\n Old Water Heater Removed… New Heat Pump Water Heater Getting Plumbed In. All Powered Up and Producing hot Water. Tormach 1100 Moved Back. Initial $500.00 Rebate Check From Electric Company. Update 10\/2017 I Said Yes, Why Not!<\/p>\n Package Arrived, InSide the package Was? Install is Simple Install The E-Radio Follow The Instructions To Connect To Wifi.<\/p>\n Complete. $50.00 Check For Signing up And Installing The Device!<\/p>\n Cost Right Now $80.00<\/p>\n In Aug 2018 I Will get Another Check For $100.00 For Completing the Pilot Program.<\/p>\n Making The Final Cost They Paid Me $20.00<\/p>\n I may sign up for the another program to monitor the water heaters Power Consumption, Room, Water Inlet and Outlet Pipe temp’s for an extra $100 incentive for participating. That would be them paying me $120.00 to Install this Water Heater.<\/p>\n Installed a few weeks now under their control now and no disruption in hot water demand.<\/p>\n I will Blog on this post of Any Issues if the Remote Control Of the A.O. Smith from the PUD has any Affect or None on the delivery of hot water.<\/p>\n Update 11\/15\/2017 Bonneville Power Tech should be arriving Today to install the data logging equipment.<\/p>\n BPA Installed The Data Logger… 11\/15\/2017<\/p>\n 12\/04\/2017<\/p>\n Another $100.00 Check… For Letting them Install The Data Logger Till Aug 2018 So Total Costs as Of 12-04-2017 Power Company has Paid Me $21.00 to install a new Heat Pump Water heater.<\/p>\n Update September 2018<\/p>\n Received The Final $100.00 Check\u00a0 For Completing The Pilot Program. So Total Costs as Of 9-04-2018 the Power Company has Paid Me $121.00 to install a Heat Pump Water Heater. Update 9\/13\/2018 During the Pilot Program with the PUD controlling the Water Heating Cycles I can recall only 1 time there was a lack of hot water. I did see a significant drop in my electric bill they had it on efficiency mode most the time.<\/p>\n I will request from BPA The Data log see what the total power consumption for the water heater was each month.<\/p>\n 01\/27\/2025 I never did get the “data” from the Bonneville Power Administration.<\/p>\n
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\nStill No Word on the Hobo Data Logger? The Program Was Also to End 8\/31\/2018 also.<\/p>\n